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The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (7th Edition)
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The 7th Euroacademia International Conference
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe
25 – 26 January 2019
4* Hotel De Medici, Bruges, Belgium
The European Union was described by Jacques Delors as an 'unidentified political object' and by Jose Manuel Barroso as the first 'non-Imperial empire'. The descriptors assigned to the European Union are creative and diverse. Yet, the agreement on what is the actual shape that the EU is taking is by no means an easy one to be achieved. Historical choices shaped and reshaped the size and functioning of the EU. The goal of an emerging 'ever closer union' is still in search for the paths of realization while pragmatics compete with ideal goals setting. The agreement seems to come when it's about the growing impact of the decisions taken in Brussels on the daily lives of the European citizens and the increasingly redistributive outcomes of the policy choices inside the EU. These dynamics created the framework for the politicization of Europe and opened a vivid debate about the direction and proportions of such a process.
The politicization of Europe is a process that takes various shapes and addresses significant puzzles. While it is clear that the EU doesn't resemble a state, it is less clear if the decisions that shape its policies are configured by Pareto efficient outcomes or by dynamics that are intrinsic to a political system and defined by emerging party politics within the European Parliament. The democratic problem or the democratic deficit issue was and continues to be one of the main challenges facing the European Union in any terms or from any position is understood or described. As some argue, the lack of fully democratic procedures led to Brexit while many European citizens largely are disenchanted with the way decisions are made in the EU. The problem of accountability for the decision making inside the EU was there from the beginning and it emerged gradually as more emphatic on the agenda of vivid debates as the powers of the EU have grown after the Maastricht Treaty. This was concomitant with a growing disenchantment of citizens from member states with politics in general, with debates over the democratic deficits inside member states, with enlargement and with a visible and worrying decrease in voters' turnouts at both national and especially European elections. To all that, recent times added the economic crisis and a re-emergence of nationalism in many European countries and an increase in anti-EU sentiments. The optimist supporters of EU believe in its power to constantly reinvent and reshape in deepening integration while the pessimists see either a persistence of existing problems or a darker scenario that could lead in front of current problems even to the end of the EU as we know it.
The 7th International Conference 'The European Union and the Politicization of Europe' aims to survey some of the current debates in EU studies and addresses once more the challenges of the EU polity in a context of multiple crises that confronted Europe in recent years. It supports a transformative view that invites to dialogue balanced weights of optimism and pessimism in a belief that the unfold of current events and the way EU deals with delicate problems will put an increased pressure in the future on matters of accountability and will require some institutional adjustments that address democratic requirements for decision making. However in its present shape and context the EU does not look able to deliver soon appropriate answers to democratic demands. In a neo-functionalist slang we can say as an irony that the actual crisis in the EU legitimacy is a 'spillover' effect of institutional choices made some time before. To address the EU's democratic deficit however is not to be a skeptic and ignore the benefits that came with it but to acknowledge the increasing popular dissatisfaction with 'occult' office politics and with the way EU tackles daily problems of public concern while the public is more and more affected by decisions taken at the European level. The question to be addressed in the conference is weather the increasing politicization of the EU will lead to a full democratization of EU politics or to increasing fragmentation and division. Of course, the scenarios regarding the future of the EU, the impact of Brexit and re-emerging nationalism and far right politics will be at the center of the debate in the conference.
Is the EU becoming an increasingly politicized entity? Is the on-going politicization of Europe a structured or a messy one? Do political parties within the European Parliament act in a manner that strengthens the view of the EU as an articulate political system? Are there efficient ways for addressing the democratic deficit issue? Can we find usable indicators for detecting an emerging European demos and a European civil society? Does a Europeanization of the masses take place or the EU remains persistently a genuinely elitist project? Did the Lisbon Treaty introduced significant changes regarding the challenges facing the EU? Can we see any robust improvements in the accountability of the EU decision making processes? Are there alternative ways of looking at the politicization processes and redistributive policies inside the EU? What is the impact of Brexit for the future of the EU? Can we expect a future of European solidarity or division? These are only few of the large number of questions that unfold when researchers or practitioners look at the EU. It is the aim of the 7th International Conference 'The European Union and the Politicization of Europe' to address in a constructive manner such questions and to offer a platform for dissemination of research results or puzzles that can contribute to a better understanding of the on-going process of politicization within the European Union.
The conference welcomes papers advancing contributions from the widest area of inquiry related to the EU, from theoretic contributions and methodological proposals to case studies at EU level and regional or national levels. It aims to be an interdisciplinary event that adds value to the debate about the present and future of the EU based on the firm belief that deepening the specialized dialogue on EU topics leads to asserting the European critical thinking and to a better understanding of European realities. Papers addressing current challenges from the Eurozone crisis to Brexit or re-emergence of nationalist parties and attitudes in member states as well as security studies and IR papers are especially welcomed.
The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest in Europe, Europe related and European Union topics from all parts of the world. As the nature of the conference is intended to be multidisciplinary in nature, different academic backgrounds are equally welcomed. Cultural approaches, political studies, critical studies, out of mainstream approaches and artistic/literary contributions to the better understanding of Europe in its past present and future dimensions are all equally welcomed. Euroacademia favors alternative and innovative thinking proposals and non-mainstream methodologies.
Post-graduate students, doctoral candidates and young researchers are welcomed to submit an abstract. Representatives of INGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks and activists willing to present their work with impact on or influenced by specific understandings of Europe and/or the European Union are welcomed as well to submit the abstract of their contribution.
Abstracts will be reviewed and the participants are selected based on the proven quality of the abstract. The submitted paper for the conference proceedings is expected to be in accordance with the lines provided in the submitted abstract.
Registration process is now closed
The Participation Fee Includes:
the registration fee
participant's package with all the materials for the conference
full access to the conference proceedings
eligibility for inclusion in the conference proceedings published volume
a copy of the published volume
access to Euroacademia discussion group and newsletters
coffee brakes for all the duration of the conference
welcome drink in Bruges on 25th of January 2019
a 3 course lunch on 25th of January 2019 at 4* De Medici Restaurant
access to optional social program
Unfortunately, Euroacademia has no available funds for covering transport and accommodation to/in Bruges. Participants are responsible for securing funding to cover transportation and accommodation costs during the whole period of the conference. Official invitation letters can be sent by Euroacademia to the financing institutions of selected participants to confirm the selection and participation in the conference upon request. Preferential rates are offered to participants willing to book their accommodation at the 4* Hotel de Medici – the conference venue.
A specific spot in the conference program will be dedicated to social networking and therefore all the participants interested in setting or developing further cooperation agendas and prospects with other participants will have time to present and/or promote their project and express calls for cooperation.
A specific setting (Social Corner) for promotional materials connected with the topic of the conference will be reserved for the use of the participants. Books authored or edited by the participants can be exhibited and promoted during the whole period of the conference and can also be presented within the conference package based on prior arrangements.
Photos and videos will be taken during the conference and the organizers will consider through the participation of selected presenters or members of the audience that the agreement for being photographed or filmed during the event was granted through registration to the event. Please notify the organizers in written form prior to the the event if you are a confirmed participant and would prefer otherwise.
An optional dinner and a social event will be organized for the first and second evenings of the conference in a typical Flemish cuisine restaurant as optional program for the willing participants. The social dinner will be held based on participant's confirmation and its costs are to be covered individually by participants based on individual order.
Selected papers will be published in an electronic volume with ISBN after the confirmation of the authors and a double peer-review process based on an agreed publication schedule. All the papers selected for publication should be original and must have not been priory published elsewhere. All participants to the conference will receive a copy of the volume.
Specific selected papers will be also published in CEJISS (Central European Journal of International & Security Studies)
About CEJISS
Formally launched in January 2007, CEJISS is designed as a double-destination scholarly bridge. The first bridge was constructed with Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in mind, focusing on increasing the audience for Central European scholars. In this regard, CEJISS is making a substantial impact as each issue attracts attention in some 45,000 people in nearly 160 countries. However, CEJISS is not Central European centric and invites scholars from around the world to contribute. This has meant that just as Central European scholars now have an easier time gaining a footing outside of the region, so international scholars also have an easier time getting in and making an impact here. With a mere two decades separating our times from the 'darker' Cold War years, CEJISS aims to contribute English language perspectives to the peoples of Central Europe and give the latter the amplification their research deserves.
1st of December 2018 Deadline for Submitting Panel Proposals
10th of December 2018 Deadline for Paper Proposals: 300 words abstracts and details of affiliation
11th of December 2018 Latest notification of acceptance
15th of December 2018 Sending the Registration Form
21st of December 2018 Payment of the conference fee
10th of January 2019 Sending the draft paper to be uploaded on the conference website
15th of January 2019 Publication of the conference program and uploading the draft papers on the website
25th of January 2019 The conference commences at 8.30 am
The conference will take place in the conference premises of the high standard 4* Golden Tulip Hotel De Medici, located on one of the most romantic canals of Bruges, only few minutes walking distance from the main Market Square in the center. Bruges is a renowned city for its superb center, its museums, its restaurants and its pleasant shopping streets. The city of Jan van Eyck, Bruges is also called "Venice of the North" because it has numerous canals which cross the city. The historic city center of Bruges is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO and an iconic surrounding for many movies. Bruges has most of its medieval architecture intact, making it one of the most well-preserved medieval towns in Europe.
The 4* Golden Tulip Hotel De Medici is a modern hotel set on the canal side by a stone bridge, in an 11-minute walk from the main Grote Markt square and the adjacent medieval Belfort belfry. During Bruges' Golden Age, the 15th century, the fine arts prevailed. In the wake of the prestigious Burgundian dynasty, the great Flemish Primitives made a name for themselves. The world-renowned works of Jan Van Eyck, Hans Memling and those of other prominent Flemish Masters can be admired at the Groeninge Museum, St John's Hospital, St Saviour's Cathedral and the Church of Our Lady. Michelangelo's world famous 'Madonna and Child' can also be found in the Church of Our Lady.
Hotel de Medici
Potterierei 15
B-8000 Bruges, Belgium
How to get to Bruges
The national Brussels Airport, one hour away by train or car, offers the best connections. A large number of carriers offer direct flights to Brussels. Belgium's main airport has its own railway station. Bruges can easily be reached through the airports of Brussels, Charleroi (Brussels South) and Lille, so getting to Bruges by train is by far the easiest way. Direct trains from Brussels Airport are scheduled every hour. From Charleroi Airport there is an Express Bus to Bruges station. The nearest airport to Bruges is the Ostend-Bruges International Airport in Ostend (around 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the city centre of Bruges), but it offers very limited passenger transport and connections.
Traveling to Bruges on Belgium's excellent rail system is a natural choice. Trains to and from Brussels leave every 30 minutes during the day. The journey from Brussel-Zuid (a.k.a. Bruxelles-Midi if you prefer French to Dutch) to Bruges takes about 50 minutes. Brugge is not the terminus, look for trains going to Oostende or Blankenberge. If you are traveling on the Eurostar that same day, you can get a cheap add-on ticket to "Any Belgian Station". Otherwise, buy a ticket when you get to the station.
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The extensive conference program with abstracts and available draft papers is accessible below by clicking on the panel number tabs and links of individual presentations.
Populism, Nationalism and Right-Leaning Parties in Europe
Malcolm James, University of Sussex, UK
Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Warwick, UK
Left Problems, Nationalism and the Crisis In spite of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party, emboldened nationalism remains at the centre of British politics. After all, much of the past decade had seen nationalism become the most reliable broker of electoral power. It had informed the rise of far-right populisms whilst also fortifying centre-right rule. These nationalisms manifest along multiple registers. Our talk will provide a historically attuned analysis of the relationship in Britain between the current crisis and xeno-racist nationalism, including an engagement with the myths surrounding whiteness and the working class. It is our wider argument that this repudiation can only manifest through a solid understanding of the contemporary crisis in which these nationalisms arise.
Michel Huysseune, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Looking at Right-Wing Nationalism with a Longer Term Perspective: The Lega in Italy The Lega, founded in 1991 under the name Lega Nord, is amongst the oldest populist and Eurosceptic parties in Europe. An analysis of the history of the party and the evolution of its political discourse allows a better and more context-embedded understanding of its Euroscepticism, especially since in its early years the party's programme was rather pro-European. he Lega's sometimes contradictory stances on Europe are the outcome from conflicting dynamics that guide the party's politics.
Federico Bonomi, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK
Populists in the Parliaments: A Comparative Analysis of Populist Parliamentarian Behaviour Concerning European Integration The subject of my paper is the populist political discourse about European integration within the parliamentary Committees of the Member States. The member states on which I have conducted my analysis are Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands. As selection criterion, I used Arend Lijphart's classification that puts them in the category of consociational democracies. The present work demonstrates the complexity of the European integration discourse and the contradictions present in the single parties and coalitions, the diversity of approaches between the forces of the different states, and the weight of national interests on populists' political claims.
Iztok Šori, Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mojca Pajnik, Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Rise of Ethno-nationalist Populism in Slovenia This paper suggests that the process of establishing independent statehood were largely based on right wing populist parties' attempts to differentiate the Slovenian national identity from anything that is seen or considered as Balkan, which became a metaphor for backward and primitive. Exclusionary populism intensified over the last two decades, which will be shown in the paper by employing the case study analysis of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDP).
Populism, Nationalism and the Political Crisis of Europe: Assessing the Narratives, Conditions and Impact of Brexit
Mitja Kovac, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Are "Brexiters" Indeed the Bad Guys? What Can We Learn from the Modern Game Theory and Economics of Federalism? The paper presents the game theoretical explanation for the Brexit and offers a set of the economic criteria that may be used by the EU policy-makers in order to mitigate the current crisis and to construct an efficient institutional framework on the vertical and horizontal division of competences to address the growing EU's democratic deficit. The paper also argues that growing political distortions and increasing politicization of the EU will lead to increasing fragmentation and division.
Alistair Somerville, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, USA
The Myth of a Liberal Brexit: How Brexiteers (Mis)Used History in their Quest for British 'Freedom' Ultimately, this paper seeks to problematize and critique the relationship between the wartime British 'underdog myth' and the myth of reviving imperial ties, exposing them as fundamentally incompatible and ultimately inaccurate readings of British history. Throughout, the paper will seek to understand what a "liberal Brexit" actually means, and whether a historical approach can help us to understand such an idea.
Shein Sergey, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
The Role of Conservatism in Development of Right-Wing Populism in Western Democracies: UK Case The main part of conservative strategy was the co-optation of elements of the political course, first of all, the claim to hold a referendum on Britain's withdrawal from the EU. Thus, the British case demonstrates that conservatism can play dualistic role. On the one hand, conservatism can act as an ideological resource of right-wing populism, ensuring its ideological equipment; while on the other hand, it can undertake effective strategies, such as co-opting a number of elements of a political course to reduce the electoral positions of right-wing populists.
Erin Bell, University of Lincoln, UK
Florian Gleisner, University of Lincoln, UK
Brexit, History and Education: Recognising Conflict in a Period of Upheaval This paper seeks to interrogate the role of an international project about the representation of the past, during a period of historic social upheaval and uncertainty, by drawing on George Santayana's assertion (1905) that 'Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness...Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it', and its misrepresentation in wider culture, in order to contextualise the contradictions posed by the project in a time of change and amnesia in the UK.
The Eurozone Crisis, Economics & Policy Making: Transformative Impact on the European Project and Model(s) of Capitalism
Madeleine Hosli, United Nations University – CRIS, Bruges, Belgium / Leiden University, Netherlands
Wen Pan, Sichuan University, China
Michael Lantmeeters, United Nations University – CRIS, Bruges, Belgium
A Liberal Intergovernmental Approach to the Establishment of the European Stability Mechanism Utilizing the research methods of congruence testing and process-tracing, this paper examines LI's analytical and predictive power in explaining the creation of the ESM.
Ad van Riet, European Central Bank (Until end of 2018)
Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: The European Central Bank in the Realm of Politics This paper reviews how the ECB's exceptional monetary accommodation to fight persistent low inflation during 2013-2018 may trigger political intervention and a populist backlash.
Andrei Radulescu, Transylvania Bank and Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
The Policy-Mix In the Euroland – Challenges at the End of the Post-Crisis Cycle This paper applies standard econometric tools in order to assess the policy-mix in the Euroland over the past two decades, with a focus on the post-crisis cycle.
Juan Carlos Peña, University of Bamberg, Germany
Christian R. Proaño, University of Bamberg, Germany
Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg, Germany
Inequality, Macroeconomic Performance and Political Polarization: An Empirical Analysis The political gridlock may explain why economies experience slow recoveries from recessions and financial crises. This Paper investigates the determinants of political polarization with special focus on income inequality.
Stefano Merlo, John Stuart Mill College, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
Freedom as Non-Domination in the Eurozone: A Republican Assesment of the Eurozone Sudden-Stop Crisis By bringing together macroeconomics and republican political theory, the paper explores the possibility that the conception of freedom as non-domination can be meaningfully applied to evaluate the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
Evangelia Nissioti, University of Hamburg, Germany
The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis and its Regulation on the Decrease of European Bank Mergers As a consequence of this presentation, we will be able to infer the general reasons why European bank mergers fail by remaining few and apprehend if this phenomenon it to be attributed to the inefficiency of the Merger Monitoring Authorities.
Thinking Europe: Philosophy, Intellectual History and Cultural Autonomy
Daniel Clements, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium
The Public Realm and Contemplation in the Thought of Hannah Arendt and Jan Patočka Arendt and Patočka address history, philosophy, and the crisis of modern Europe with similar influences (chiefly Heidegger) and method, yet their understanding of how contemplation relates the European ideal of the public realm is incongruent. This paper will explore their points of divergence in order to gain insight into the threat they believed the European ideal of the public realm was facing in the 20th century.
Alessandro Volpe, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Jürgen Habermas: The "Unfinished" European Project and the Claim of Solidarity The paper highlights the concept of solidarity in Habermas' most recent writings (2013-2015) on the European crisis, meant as a key-factor in order to solve it. The idea of political and civic solidarity, heir of the republican notion of fraternité, may fit into a transnational context such as Europe, because it specifically concerns stranger citizens in terms of morality and identity.
Carles José i Mestre, Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona, Spain
Politicization of Europe without the Peoples of Europe? The mentions of the "peoples" of Europe can be seen as just another way of referring to the different sets of citizens, but we will defend that this persistence in the use of the word is related to recognizing that the political construction of Europe can't neglect Community factors and that, in any case, that construction will not succeed if these factors are neglected.
Sandro Gorgone, Department of Philosophy , University of Messina, Italy
Measure and Limit: Thinking of Europe at the Meridian This paper proposes the thesis that the philosophical idea of Europe includes in itself the concepts of Measure and Limit, which represent the relationship to the 'otherness', as is symbolically shown by the permeability of the Mediterranean sea and earth. The main philosophical and political responsibility of Europe doesn't consist of the integration of its oceanic (Nordic) and Mediterranean (Southern) countries, but of measuring its differences and building bridges between the islands of its archipelago.
Valentina Surace, Department of Philosophy , University of Messina, Italy
Justice for Europe The purpose of this proposal is to present Jacques Derrida's reflections on Europe, demonstrating that deconstruction does not remain enclosed in speculative discourses, but aspires to intervene in the world. In this "time of poverty" in which millions of people are knocking on the doors of Europe, it is our ethical and political responsibility to negotiate between the European imperatives of hospitality and the need for unconditional hospitality in every case.
Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and Western Europe
George Terzis, Department of Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Linsey Armstrong, Syracuse University, New York, USA
The Role of Foreign Correspondents in Cultural and Science Diplomacy With the European Union in general and different European countries in particular maintaining a strong focus on cultural diplomacy initiatives, it is imperative to explore how foreign correspondents covering art and culture as well as those initiatives affect the perception of the European Union and its member states to audiences abroad. The following research question then is explored: How do foreign correspondents shape the image of a foreign country or a multinational institution such as the EU to home audiences, particularly through coverage of art and culture and cultural diplomacy activities?
Riccardo Trobbiani, United Nations University – CRIS, Bruges, Belgium
Domenico Valenza, United Nations University – CRIS, Bruges, Belgium
EU's Civil Society Bias in the Neighbourhood: A Case Study on Culture The analysis seeks to provide a case study with a thematic focus. It looks at EU cultural relations with Neighbourhood countries and in particular at EU's financial and technical support to their cultural actors. The EU has developed a sound experience in supporting the cultural sector in ENP countries. However, this study seeks to enquire whether the boundaries of what cultural sector means for the EU are mostly based on a Eurocentric understanding of CS or rather on a more inclusive definition mediated with the nature of societies in partner countries.
Firdevs Bulut, University College London, UK
Propaganda or Cultural Diplomacy? Tarabya Cultural Academy This paper debates the Tarabya Cultural Academy, a culture and art institution initiated in 2011 by the then foreign ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey. Its original purpose was to bring German and Turkish publics together, and create understanding between the two states. This paper will therefore debate Tarabya Cultural Academy, its artistic work and the blurred line between cultural diplomacy and propaganda in this context, focusing on specific artwork that has been created over the last two years (2016 – 2018).
Mateusz Sapija, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK
Contemporary Art Exhibitions as a Tool for the Democratisation of Europe Between 1989 and 2004 This presentation will seek to problematise the use of contemporary art as a presumably neutral platform of dialogue between Eastern and Western European states, which supported the process of socio-political Europeanisation of the former East. At the same time, it will situate the aforementioned projects within the broader debates on the attempts to construct the post-ideological socio-political landscape of democratised Europe post-1989 through the means of contemporary art.
The Crisis of Europe and its Political Challenges: Assessing the EU's Legitimacy Crisis and Perceptions from ETS Negotiations to Asylum and Migration Policy
Claire Godet, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo
Avoiding a Legitimacy Crisis Despite the Quarrels: The EU in the Emissions Trading System Negotiations For a decade, the European Union (EU) has been struggling through different crises: it has difficulty recovering from the financial crisis; it seems unable to deal with the migration waves; and it has now to face Brexit. If it has been shown that the EU thrives in times of crisis, it is also true that the EU has never been faced with so many challenges at once and many scholars have concluded that the EU is currently facing a legitimacy crisis. This paper argues otherwise. Indeed, it shows that legitimacy and legitimacy crisis are distorted concepts that have lost their operational power.
Roila Mavrouli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The (De)Politicization of Europe through the Migration Crisis Within this paper we will demonstrate this inherent heterogeneity of the word "people" which was one of the reasons of the Euro-crisis. In this sense, do we need to form a European people, a European demos, who will accomplish the European project? If Europe is in crisis, this is also because of the paradox of legitimacy and democratization : in order to achieve legitimacy, we need to subordonate it to a democratization process and not a simple institutional objective. In other words, the distinction between input oriented legitimacy (legitimate political choices because they reflect the will of the people) and output oriented legitimacy (government for the people) shatters the foundation of the European identity.
Gordana Tkalec, University North, Koprivnica, Croatia
Iva Rosanda Žigo, University North, Koprivnica, Croatia
The Media Reception of the Refugee Wave in the European Countries Outside the Schengen Area The phenomenological research of the media reception of migrants is an interesting challenge in itself, especially when it is limited to the area that brings its own specificities. Relating to the not so distant experience of the war on its own territory with numbers of its own refuges and relatively short-term membership in the European Union (while still outside the Schengen borders), the media reception becomes a key to the creation of a media audiences' attitude. The Croatian survey results regarding the various reporting methods on refugee problem and their influence on diverse perception of refugees, can help to understand the polarization of attitudes about the perhaps most problematic issue of the European Union.
Iryna Sofinska, National University 'Lviv Polytechnic', Ukraine
Migration Outsourcing Management: Challenges and Perspectives of Usage in XXI Century The proposal to offer migrants some legal opportunities to apply for visas or asylum in transit and origin countries out of the EU "frontline" states (so-called outsourcing asylum) seems to be a real pathway, gate-keeping mechanism, political and legal instrument to reduce the increasing flow of migrants and asylum seekers but not to stop migration to Europe. This gate-keeping mechanism might help to sort wanted migrants from unwanted not inside the EU, but in non-EU "frontline" states. This case is about national sovereignty and state security, but about human rights protection as such.
Assessing the EU's Normative Influence and External Perceptions
Natalia Boliari, Manhattan College, New York, USA
Assessing the Eurozone Crisis: Perspectives from the North-American Media This paper evaluates the prevailing narratives of the crisis as they are presented in the North American media. It assesses editorials and articles in four major newspapers (two American and two Canadian) in order to identify the similarities and differences in narratives presented in all four. Among other issues, the single market and the Euro created a power imbalance between European Union institutions such as the European Central Bank, market forces, and the political institutions of Eurozone members. The treatment of this imbalance by each of the four newspapers is of particular interest because such treatment defines who or what the North American media blames for the crisis and the solutions it suggests.
Justin Tomczyk, Armed Conflict Location and Event Database Project (ACLED), Park Ridge, USA
Optimism in a Contested Region – Forecasting the Future of the European Union and Armenia This paper will present a forecast of Armenia-EU relations for the near future and new potential areas of cooperation. Most importantly, this paper will detail how the various crises facing the European Union (such as Eurozone instability, the spread of populism, and the fraying relations with Turkey) may jeopardize this relationship, and what policies may be enacted to alleviate this threat. This paper will include a brief review of relations between Brussels and Yerevan since 1991 alongside which policy areas that would conflict with Russian interests in the South Caucasus. The main legal basis of this study is the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), a treaty signed in late 2017 that is based on the cancelled 2013 Armenia-EU Association Agreement.
Keith Harrington, NUI Travelling Scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences, Maynooth University, Ireland
A European Failure? The European Union's Policy Towards Transnistria The paper will argue that the EU can and must become more active in the Transnistrian resolution for several reasons. Firstly, even though the Transnistrian authorities are overtly pro-Russian, the European Union imports more Transnistrian goods than the Russian Federation. As Transnistria's largest trade partner, the European Union can use economic pressure to influence a settlement between the breakaway region and Moldova. Since 2014, destabilisation in Ukraine has been a concern for the EU. The presence of an unrecognised state in Moldova not only potentially further destabilises the region, but it also brings the destabilisation much closer to Europe. The paper will demonstrate that the EU can and must become more engaged in the resolution process.
Identity in the Visual: The Visual Turn and Identity Making Practices
Elisabetta Zurovac, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
Giovanni Boccia Artieri, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
Yugoslavia on Instagram: The (Re)Construction of a Collective Identity from the Past Social media represent a space that allows users to collect memories and, by sharing them, to connect with those who think and feel the same about the past. In this paper we analyze the intergenerational case of Jugonostalgija on Instagram where users are rebuilding a socio-cultural yugoslav sphere in a tension among 'culture of nostalgia' and 'nostalgic culture' (Velikonja 2008), playing different languages and aesthetics, producing content that refer to the same cultural references of the past. This allows them to respond to the need of reaffirming a common 'we sense', a feeling of belonging above the borders, prohibited by the national states. By a qualitative visual content analysis (Julien 2008) of 52 Instagram accounts related to Yugoslavia, we observed the generational relation between media and time in Jugonostalgija .
Francesca Guarino, University of Bologna, Italy
"Visability". Visual Research on Abilities During the Jubilee of Mercy Nowadays pictures and video have become more and more popular in capturing, communicating and sharing social happenings with a massive impact on social practices and representation of reality. The research job aims to investigate the spreading of digital devices in a religious event when combined with a consistent presence of sickness and disability. In order to analyse this topic, a visual qualitative research study has been developed during the special Jubilee of Mercy that Pope Francesco dedicated to people affected by sickness and disability − Rome, 10-12 of June 2016 − in a perspective of observant participation. More than 2000 pictures from the researcher and the pilgrims from Catholic countries, note fields and about 70 interviews with pilgrims have been collected and then treated and analysed
Adriano Messias De Oliveira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Visual Identity and the Human Crisis in Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil Films represent a complex symptomatology of our culture. In this scope, moving images go far beyond a tangle of signs that the Saussurean tradition linguistics has depreciated for decades. Instead, they are able to point out important aspects of our visual identities. In contrast, independent and authorial films are capable of communicating agglutinations and possibilities of identification, establishing dialogues among alterities. My proposal is based on a semiotic-psychoanalytic approach that seeks to understand how the expression of monstrous forms appear in Errementari:The Blacksmith and the Devil (Paul Urkijo, 2016), produced by Àlex de la Iglesia.
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Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (8th Edition) 28 - 30 September 2018 Agora Cultural Centre, Lucca, Tuscany, Ital
Potterierei 15B-8000 Bruges, Belgium
Conference Room: Firenze
08:30 - 09:00Registration & Welcome Coffee (Registration Desk – Conference Room)
09:00 - 10:30Welcome and Opening Remarks / Opening Workshop: The EU and the Politicization of Europe
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break & Snacks
11:00 - 13:00Panel 1: Populism, Nationalism and Right-Leaning Parties in Europe
13:00 - 14:30Lunch (Hotel de Medici Restaurant)
14:30 - 16:30Panel 2: Populism, Nationalism and the Political Crisis of Europe: Assessing the Narratives, Conditions and Impact of Brexit
17:00 - 19:30Panel 3: The Eurozone Crisis, Economics & Policy Making: Transformative Impact on the European Project and Model(s) of Capitalism
19:30 - 20:00Welcome Drink
20:00 - 21:00Optional Social Dinner Out in Bruges
08:15 - 08:30Welcome Coffee
08:30 - 10:30Panel 4: Thinking Europe: Philosophy, Intellectual History and Cultural Autonomy
11:00 - 13:00Panel 5: Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and Western Europe
14:30 - 16:30Panel 6: The Crisis of Europe and its Political Challenges: Assessing the EU's Legitimacy Crisis and Perceptions from ETS Negotiations to Asylum and Migration Policy
17:00 - 19:00Parallel Sessions: Panel 7: Assessing the EU's Normative Influence and External Perceptions
17:00 - 19:00Parallel Sessions: Panel 8: Identity in the Visual: The Visual Turn and Identity Making Practices
19:00 - 19:30Closing Session: Concluding Remarks and Discussions


CanningCraft » Sauerkraut is done!
As you might remember from my earlier post, I got a new batch of sauerkraut going back in the middle of March. Well, it is finally done! This batch took a bit longer than other batches that I've made–about six weeks or so, rather than three or four. (Actually, I'm guessing this batch was probably done a few days earlier, but yes, I admit to forgetting about my kraut for a few days at a time from time to time…..). I'm quite sure that the reason this batch took longer was because of the temperature of my basement, which is where I do my fermenting. In warm or moderate weather our unheated basement usually hovers right around 68-70 degrees. Lately though, in March and April, our outside temps have remained chilly (it's pretty much still winter in Maine, after all….), and likewise our stone basement has remained cool. Almost the whole time the kraut was fermenting the basement thermometer didn't budge from 61 degrees, except for the last week or two, when it inched up to 64 degrees or so, due to slowly rising outside temps. In any case, when it was finally done, I put the kraut in a colander to drain the brine, then strained the reserved brine through a paper coffee filter (You don't have to do this–I just prefer to, as it helps to make the brine a bit clearer). Then I loosely packed the sauerkraut into a couple of clean, quart-sized mason jars, poured the brine back into the sauerkraut, filling up the remainder of the space in the jars, and stuck them in the fridge. I had been thinking of canning this batch, but it'll keep well refrigerated for 4-6 months, and I have a feeling that we're going to eat it up pretty quickly…..so the fridge it is!


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Plans revealed for first Starbucks drive-thru in Scunthorpe with 20 new jobs
The coffee chain wants to start serving customers on the Mannaberg Way business parks
Scunthorpe is set to get its first drive-thru Starbucks after plans for a new coffee house were unveiled.
The international coffee chain's latest branch would create 20 jobs, according to proposals submitted to North Lincolnshire Council.
It has been earmarked for the car park of the Energie Fitness gym at the junction of Mannaberg Way and the A1077 and is expected to serve gym-goers and the nearby business parks.
Starbucks claims the development will not draw trade away from Scunthorpe town centre.
Instead, the plans say it would serve an area that is "heavy in industry but light in refreshment".
Plans have been submitted for a Starbucks drive-thru branch on Mannaberg Way in Scunthorpe (Image: Starbucks)
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The application, which has been submitted by Simmonds Planning Ltd on behalf of Starbucks, says: "The proposal would be sited to the front of what is currently an under-utilised section of car parking area to the Energie fitness gym located off Mannaberg Way.
"The gym is well established with a thriving clientele and the applicant has seen the potential to provide a nationally respected coffee facility to this area of Scunthorpe which is heavy in industry but light in refreshment facilities for visitors and workers.
"Starbucks drive thru is a proven successful model in locations such as this one with commercial and leisure facilities and a high number of passing visitors.
"The Starbucks brand is also nationally renowned and easily recognised for its high quality product. The applicant is keen to bring such a brand to Scunthorpe as its proven success brings confidence that it will be an attribute to the locality in times when diversification and expansion is key for success."
Eight full-time and 12 part-time jobs are expected to be created, if the scheme is given the go-ahead by North Lincolnshire Council planners.
The new Starbucks branch has been earmarked for an area of the Energie Fitness gym's car park (Image: Submitted Picture)
Indoor and outdoor seating areas form part of the plans for the new Starbucks branch in Scunthorpe (Image: Starbucks)
Although customers will be able to grab a drink to go, there will also be outdoor and indoor seating.
The application says that the drive-thru is expected to serve the nearby business parks and car showrooms and claims customers are unlikely to go out of their way from the town centre to Mannaberg Way.
Existing car parking would provide 85 spaces for customers.
The application requests planning permission for a café and shop, a drive-thru lane and landscaping around the building.
Plans for the Starbucks branch show it in the south-west corner of the gym's car park, close to the roundabout, with the drive-thru lane around it.
The designers have pointed to the success of a similar drive-thru in Lincoln, which opened in 2018 next to an Energie gym.
Starbucks already has a branch in Scunthorpe town centre, where long queues formed when it opened in the former Perfect Home unit on High Street in June 2018.
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Starbucks also recently opened opened a drive thru branch in Barton-Upon-Humber and another one is on the way at Barnetby Top's roadside services area.
The application for the Mannaberg Way branch is now under consideration by planning officers at the council and a decision will be made at a later date on whether the project can proceed.

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RWE and Hyphen explore offtake of green ammonia from Namibia
Essen/Windhoek, 2 December 2022
From 2027, up to 300,000 tons of ammonia could be supplied annually
RWE and Hyphen Hydrogen Energy (Hyphen) have signed a memorandum of understanding that could see RWE offtake up to 300,000 tons of green ammonia* per year from Namibia.
Hyphen was appointed preferred bidder by the Namibian government to develop the first green hydrogen project in Namibia for export. By 2027 the project aims to annually produce 1.7 million tons of green ammonia – a hydrogen derivative that is particularly suitable for transport by ship. German renewable energy project developer Enertrag is a joint venture partner of Hyphen.
RWE is committed to develop a globally diversified portfolio of long-term offtake agreements for green hydrogen and its derivatives, such as ammonia. In this context RWE has announced in March its plan to build a terminal for green ammonia in Brunsbüttel (Germany) by 2026. This terminal could serve as one port of destination for Namibian ammonia.
Marco Raffinetti, CEO of Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, said: "We are delighted to reach this agreement with RWE. This milestone underpins our ambitious targets to export green hydrogen globally from Namibia. By establishing strong connections with policymakers and offtakers across Europe, we are working with the Government of Namibia to develop the industry which will spearhead southern Africa's role in achieving regional and global decarbonisation goals."
Ulf Kerstin, Chief Commercial Officer of RWE Supply & Trading said: "Green molecules are the only way for many industries in Germany to achieve their climate targets. In the long term, Germany's demand for them will have to be met mainly through imports. That's why we're looking forward to progressing the offtake discussions with Hyphen – to bring green ammonia from Namibia to Germany."
* Information on ammonia:
Ammonia is one of the most common basic materials in the chemical industry. More than 180 million tons are produced annually worldwide and processed into fertilisers in agriculture or used in chemical processes, among other things. It is already shipped globally today. In order to make ammonia "green", fossil energy such as natural gas must be replaced by electricity from renewable energy sources during its production. Ammonia has clear advantages over hydrogen, which is used throughout the molecular chain: It is easier, more efficient and cheaper to store and transport.
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In fact, the modern suit evolved from the extravagant, often embroidered and bejeweled attires of western noblemen around the Industrial Revolution when more practical and comfortable wear became the order of the day. So here are some trivia facts that we at Prestige Store are quite sure you will enjoy, read on!
According to Wikipedia, the word suit comes from the French word 'suite'which means "following". This word in turn finds its source in the Latin verb 'sequor', which stands for "I follow". The reason for this is mostly because various garments follow each other to form the suite – the trousers, waistcoat, jacket.
These days the extended shirt cuff is such a usual detail, one wouldn't even care to wonder why it is so. And although it definitely adds a lot of panache to the suit, it came about more due to dire necessity in the 1900s. Back then,a suit was (even more than now) a very expensive garment to procure. Most men could not replace a tattered one easily. So they would let their shirt cuffs be a little longer than the coat sleeve to prevent its cuffs from fraying. After all, a new shirt was much more affordable than a new suit jacket!
One of the most distinguishing features of a high quality suit jacket is the buttons at the edge of the sleeve, called 'working cuffs'. These buttons are also known as 'Surgeon's Cuffs' as they were incorporated into suit jackets for wartime surgeons who would need to roll up their sleeves and get to work on the battlefield.
An old legend suggests that the tradition of never fastening the last button on a suit jacket dates back to Louis XIV of France. This happened when the king found that he had grown too big a belly to fit into his favourite jacket. So he entered the ball in regal style but with the last button of the coat unfastened. Naturally, all the other men at the court felt compelled to do the same. And that is how a trend that continues to this day began!
Initially, suits were always custom made. It was in the year 1849 that America's oldest men's clothier introduced the concept of 'Ready to wear' suits. Needless to say this revolutionized the accessibility of this garment for men from all walks of life. Another brand often credited in this regard is Haggar, which in 1933 upgraded its manufacturing methods to mirror Ford's Straight Line Production model of automobile industry. Operators began production of pants on a single unit rather than bundles making the suit much more affordable.


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Save thousands on 2019 Mac Pro RAM with DIY upgrade
Friday, December 13, 2019, 11:41 am PT (02:41 pm ET)
The new Mac Pro can hold up to 1.5 terabytes of memory, but paying Apple's prices for more RAM from the base amount at the time of order can add up to $25,000 to the cost of the workstation. AppleInsider offers some aftermarket upgrades as cheaper alternatives to boost the memory capacity of your new 2019 Mac Pro with a quick DIY upgrade.
The reincarnation of the creative workstation, the new Mac Pro is built to be upgraded and serviced with ease. An easy-to-remove enclosure provides access to practically all of the main replaceable components, which savvy users could upgrade to more powerful versions down the line.
Apple itself fully intends the modular Mac Pro to be serviced by its customers, and has even released instructions on how to install RAM and MPX modules. This makes the Mac Pro ripe for after-purchase upgrades when an increase in performance is required.
Inflating Orders
One of the primary ways a Mac Pro order can swell in terms of cost is due to the memory options Apple provides at the time of purchase. The base models include 32 gigabytes of RAM, consisting of four 8GB DDR4 EEC memory sticks, with other options incurring an upgrade charge.
On the low end, this consists of $300 for two extra 8GB sticks to bring the total to 48GB, making it a relatively cheap upgrade on the scale. All other configurations of memory require a change from 8GB sticks to versions with higher capacity, and in turn making them four-digit and five-digit purchases.
For 96GB consisting of six 16GB modules, Apple charges $1,000, with 192GB (32GB modules) at $3,000, and 384GB (64GB modules) for $6,000.
Those wanting 768GB of memory have the choice of paying $10,000 for 12 64GB-capacity modules that fill every available memory slot. Alternately, for $14,000, the same 768GB can be made up of six 128GB memory modules.
The list of available memory upgrade options within the Mac Pro sales page
In all of these cases, with the exception of the 12-module version of 768GB memory, there are sufficient memory slots available for future upgradability, so there is still considerable room for expansion.
For customers opting for a 24-core or 28-core processor, a further option is also available for 12 128GB modules, bringing the Mac Pro to its maximum capacity of 1.5 terabytes of memory. For the privilege of this, Apple asks customers to pay $25,000.
In the case of other Mac and Macbook models where a later memory upgrade is not possible due to the use of soldered-in RAM, paying more upfront for memory makes sense. For the Mac Pro, an immensely upgradable machine with easily accessible memory slots, getting memory elsewhere may be a better plan for saving money.
Upgrade Rules
According to Apple's memory requirements for the Mac Pro, it requires the use of memory of either 2666MHz DDR4 ECC or 2933MHz DDR ECC varieties. Apple does not recommend the mixing of memory speeds, and advises it uses 2666MHz on the 8-core Mac Pro while the others use the higher-speed versions.
The memory modules need to be 288-pin DIMMs of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB in capacity. Apple suggests the use of the same capacity memory modules across all installed slots to "maximize performance."
The Mac Pro is able to support Registered (R-DIMM) or Load-Reduced (LR-DIMM) modules. Only one type or the other can be used, as mixing the two together will result in a memory error flash of the status indicator light when the Mac Pro is turned on.
Furthermore, workstations configured by Apple will include R-DIMMS for up to 192GB capacities, while those set for 384GB or more will use LR-DIMMS.
Given that users seeking to install large capacities of memory may opt for the 32GB version and simply buy the memory they want, the speed and R-DIMM or LR-DIMM status doesn't need to match. It only matters if the 32GB option is going to be part of the final memory amount, but this may be unlikely in many cases.
Memory Suggestions
What follows is a list of suggested memory upgrades that are compatible with the Mac Pro. They are all divided based on the different capacity levels of memory modules required for each upgrade, but not in the quantities required for each upgrade.
With the exception of the 48GB version, all others are based on removing all modules included as part of the 32GB configuration and replaced with 6 or 12 higher-capacity modules. The 48GB upgrade is the exception, as it is just the addition of two 8GB modules to the pre-installed four, so therefore it only has to match up in terms of specification.
While opting for 12 64GB modules may be appealing to achieve the 768GB level, bear in mind that the cost saving that can be achieved by doing this is also accompanied by the problem of not being able to upgrade further without replacing modules to 128GB versions.
This is worth remembering on all levels, but it is especially so for the more expensive end of the scale.
As an example of the potential cost-savings, take the 192GB memory option, which Apple charges $3,000. Opting for three packs of the Nemix 64GB kit, which each consist of two 32GB modules, costs $198.99 per pair or $596.97 for the lot, equating to a saving of over $2,400.
OWC 8GB modules: From $44.99
Crucial DDR4-2933 8GB RDIMM: $54
Nemix DDR4-2933 ECC Registered 16GB (2x8GB) kit: $106.99
16 Gigabytes
SuperMicro 16GB SDRAM ECC Registered DDR4 2933: $75.99
Crucial DDR4-2933 16GB ECC RDIMM: $84.86
Samsung DDR4 2933 Registered memory 16GB: $79.33
OWC 16GB modules: From $109.99
Black Diamond DDR4 2933 EEC Registered 32GB (2x16GB) kit: $219.99
Nemix DDR4-2933 ECC Registered memory 64gb (4x16GB) kit: $284.99
Supermicro DDR4 2933 ECC R-DIMM 32GB: $136
Crucial DDR4 2933 EEC Registered 32GB: $150.49
Black Diamond DDR4 2933 32GB: $189.99
SuperMicro 64GB ECC Registered DDR4 2933: $271.99
Samsung 64GB DDR4 2933 EEC LR-DIMM: $299.99
Timetec Hynix DDR4 2933 Load Reduced ECC: $349.99
Black Diamond DDR4 2933 EEC Registered 128GB (2x64GB) kit: $1,149.99
Nemix DDR4 2933 ECC Load Reduced 512GB kit (8x64GB): $2,392.99
128 Gigabytes
OWC 128GB modules: From $1,999.99
Black Diamond DDR4 2933 EEC Registered 256GB (2x128GB) kit: $2,249.99
Overall, boosting the amount of RAM in your 2019 Mac Pro can save you thousands of dollars as a DIY upgrade.
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Many people recall numerous news stories about the "Octomom" from a decade ago, and this famous mother and her children are once again making headlines. However, she is no longer being publicly ridiculed as a result of her life decisions, and she has shown the world that she can manage the responsibility of caring for her 14 children as a single mother.
In 2009, Nadya Suleman was already a single mother of six children. Being a single mother of even one or two children was challenging for most women, so the thought of Nadya managing to raise six children and still wanting to have more children was an eye-opening revelation.
Nadya sought IVF treatment from a fertility specialist, and she was thrilled to learn that she was pregnant. She was even more thrilled to learn at the time that she was pregnant with eight babies.
When news of a single mother of six having octuplets on her own broke out, public scorn was significant. Some people called her irresponsible, reckless and a bad mother. In addition, media attention was centered on the fact that Nadya was the mother of a healthy set of octuplets, which is exceedingly rare.
Only a week after their birth, the infants made history as the oldest surviving set of octuplets. While media attention was focused on Nadya, it was also focused on all 14 of her children.
Despite public interference in her life, Nadya was committed to the goal of being the best mother that she could be while also raising healthy, happy children.
When she invited reporters to attend her octuplets' 10th birthday celebration, she wanted to show the world that her critics were wrong to judge her so harshly. She admits that raising 14 children on her own has been challenging, but she would not change a thing.
Nadya goes to great lengths to provide a normal life for her children in a small Los Angeles townhouse, and she has tried to stay out of headlines as much as possible for the benefit of her children.
In the short video of the octuplets celebrating their 10th birthday together, Nadya has demonstrated that she is fully capable of raising her 14 children on her own.
Has Nadya changed your first impression of her from a decade ago? Do you have special stories about the birth of multiples? Let us know in the comments below and pass this along to your friends and family to see what they think!


This week, the DFPP team concludes the High School Musical series with the first HSM motion picture, High School Musical 3! See what happens when Troy, Gabriella and the gang get all grown up.
HSM3 – the Video Game!
This week, the DFPP team continues our look at the High School Musical films with the second film, High School Musical 2. Brie drops out this week for summer, but we're joined again by Megan Annunziata as we ask "What Time Is It?" Summer Time!
This week the DFPP team goes back to school and enrolls at East High. Join us as we become Wildcats and get our heads in the game for High School Musical.
Grab the show from the links on the right hand side of the page.
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An Xtra Happy Birthday; April 15th
Hlynur SigurðssonApril 15, 2018Last Updated: April 15, 2018
Yesterday on 14th of April two young Eurovision singers had a birthday. Today there as twice as many, that is four Eurovision artist that have a birthday. Two birthday ladies and two birthday boys. Luca Babarossa, Anastasia Vinnikova, Alla Pugacheva and Sepp Krassnitzer were born on this day.
Sepp Krassitzer (Robinson), 71
Austria selected the duo Waterloo & Robinson to go Eurovision in 1976 on their behalf. Therefore they performed the song "My Little World", but that was the first time Austria sang in English at Eurovision. The song got 80 points, that is 5th place out of 18 acts.
Alla Pugacheva, 69
Russia selected Alla in 1997 to be their representative at Eurovision. That is why she came to the stage and performed the song "Primadonna" in Dublin. There the song got 33 points, thus ended in 15th place out of 25 countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FloHyhzys0
Luca Babarossa, 57
In 1988 Italy chose the famous singer Luca be their singer at Eurovision. Therefore he performed the song "Ti scrivo" in Dubin. He finished in 12th place out of 21 entries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zDMFHOVqgE
Anastasia Vinnikova, 27
Belarus selected the Anastasiya to go to Dusseldorf, Germany. Where she got to perform the patriotic song "I Love Belarus". Sadly for her, most people didn't seem to share the same love for Belarus, that is the song did not qualify for the final.
We all here at escXtra would like to send the wonderful birthday greetings!
Hlynur Sigurðsson
Icelandic Eurovision fan!
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Pants on fire: Obama accused by polling firm of lying about dropping unemployment rate
Ryan Gorman
By RYAN GORMAN
Now down to a historical low of 5.6 percent, the unemployment rate is not a true measure of Americans out of work, according to the head of a major polling firm.
The official unemployment rate, reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, has been falling for the past year, but Gallup CEO Jim Clifton says that is not because people are finding work.
"If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed," Clifton wrote in a blog post titled "The Big Lie."
Also not counted in the unemployment rate are "severely underemployed" Americans, according to Clifton.
People who work as little as one hour and are paid at least $20 – for the entire week – are not counted in the unemployment rate either, Clfiton explained.
President Barack Obama has widely lauded the falling unemployment rate, citing it as proof his economic policies are working.
But, as this reporter has noted multiple times in the past, another more accurate measure of employment is also at a historical low.
The labor force participation rate, which measures the percent of people over the age of 18 with jobs, has been on a nearly continuous decline since the depths of the "Great Recession."
Only 62.7 percent of American adults have jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Labor. No differentiation is made between full and part-time work.
The last time the labor force participation rate hit that low a number was December of 1978, during another recession.
(Bureau of Labor Statistics - U.S. Department of Labor)
That number would seem to jive with a separate Gallup poll, the payroll to population employment rate (P2P), that found only 44.1 percent of Americans aged 18 and older have full-time jobs.
Gallup estimates another 10 million people would need to find work in order to "replenish the middle class" and bring the P2P rate back to a robust 50 percent.
Americans who work fewer than 30 hours per week are not counted in the P2P poll
Gallup's measure of U.S. unemployment stands at 7.1 percent.
The official U.S. government unemployment rate has not been that high since October 2013.
An AOL News request for more comment from Gallup and Clifton has yet to be returned.
The Department of Labor has not commented on Gallup's findings.


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Caratteristiche tecniche
Miquissone è un esterno d'attacco, in possesso di una notevole velocità in progressione, in grado di agire da seconda punta o trequartista.

Carriera

Club
Il 3 gennaio 2020 firma un biennale con il , in Tanzania.

Il 26 agosto 2021 passa all' in cambio di 900.000 dollari, firmando un quadriennale. Esordisce con gli egiziani il 21 settembre contro l' in Supercoppa, subentrando al 61' al posto di Taher Mohamed.

Nazionale
Esordisce in nazionale il 29 marzo 2015 contro il Botswana in amichevole, bagnando l'esordio con una rete.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 16 ottobre 2022.

Cronologia presenze e reti in nazionale

Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali
 Campionato mozambicano: 1
Songo: 2017

 Coppa mozambicana: 1
Songo: 2016, 2019

Simba: 2019-2020, 2020-2021

Simba: 2019-2020, 2020-2021

Simba: 2020

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale mozambicana

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Unlike OpenELEC, Kodi has loads of extra functions and addons, it is freely available software suitable for most Android devices running version 4.2 or later of the OS and using an ARM or x86 SoC, for more info check here. There are also versions for Windows and other major OS systems.
The easiest method of installation, (for Android devices), is from the Google Play store. Just search for Kodi. The Google Play app should automatically select the correct version of the Kodi player be it ARM or x86 automatically. If however this isn't an option and you don't have access to Google Play on your device or its not available in your region you can follow the method below.
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Jack Crisp is using the pre-season campaign to settle into what he hopes will be a permanent role in defence in 2018.
With one remaining in the 2015 season, four players stand to have featured in all 22 of Collingwood's senior games this season.
Collingwood recruit Jack Crisp has avoided a suspension but has been fined for betting on an AFL market while he was at the Brisbane Lions.
A tall midfielder who wins the hard ball and has the ability to spread and use it well in space, Crisp's versatility has helped make him one of Collingwood's most important players since arriving from Brisbane at the end of 2014. The 190cm left-footer has good hands and is noted for his ability around the stoppages, while his run, long kicking and strong tackling are other notable features of his game. He has notched three consecutive top ten finishes in the Copeland Trophy and is contracted until the end of the 2019 season.
The remarkable reliability of Jack Crisp has continued into his third season in Black and White. Since arriving at the Holden Centre at the beginning of 2015, the hard-runner from Myrtleford hasn't missed a single home and away game. He's now the only man on the Magpies' list to have maintained such consistency – captain Scott Pendlebury lost his streak when injury struck in late 2017.
Crisp was integral to Collingwood's game-style throughout the season. His role switched from a position in the midfield and on the wing, to a rebounding defender, often loose at half back. He produced back-to-back games of 27 and 25 disposals in rounds five and six, and tipped over the 30-possession mark against West Coast in round 18.
As the regularity of Crisp's selection wasn't an indication enough of his status as coaches' favourite, he caught the eye of Nathan Buckley and his staff throughout the season. The utility earned AFLPA Coaches votes on three occasions, polling in rounds 11, 18 and 20. With many fans inside the Holden Centre, and throughout the Magpie Army, Crisp appears set to continue to go from strength to strength in 2018 and beyond.
Backed up his breakout 2015 with another consistent season, but one that perhaps did not quite hit the same heights as his first as a Magpie. He played in all 22 games for the second time in as many years and won 20 or more disposals on 13 occasions, and importantly finishing the season in strong form. He ranked third for tackles and fourth for disposals, and earned ninth placing in the Copeland. Signed a three year contract extension during the pre-season that ties him to the club until the end of 2019.
It didn't take long in 2015 for Jack Crisp to limit the pain of losing midfielder Dayne Beams to a bare minimum. After landing at Collingwood as the part of the Beams deal with Brisbane, 21-year-old Crisp was largely an unknown commodity.
Crisp was forced to wait until round 18 before he was able to force his way into the Brisbane seniors. But once he was selected, he made up for lost time, winning 20 or more disposals in four of his six games and kicking one goal and three behinds during the Lions' big win over the Magpies in round 21. Crisp laid seven tackles against Gold Coast in round 18 and showed his penchant for breaking the lines when he took three bounces against Melbourne in round 19. When playing for Brisbane's reserves, he won 20 or more disposals on eight occasions and registered 40 inside 50s for the season.
A tall midfielder (190cm) who wins the hard ball and has the ability to spread and use it well in space. Crisp played two senior games last season and was best afield in the Lions' NEAFL premiership win over Apsley. Was tipped to play more senior football in 2014.
Came to the club as a rookie and was quickly elevated to the seniors, playing 10 games. At 190cm, he is a tall midfielder who showed a thirst for winning the hard ball. Is considered to be one of the best aerobic athletes on Brisbane's list.
Like Brisbane teammate, Tom Rockliff is a Murray Bushrangers midfielder who was snapped up by the Lions after being overlooked in the National Draft. He is a 189cm midfielder/utility who takes a good mark.


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Microsoft Excel is rightly considered as one of the top-ranked spreadsheet software packages in the world. It is packed full of features and is utilized by both office workers and domestic users alike. While most people use it for simple tasks like invoice making and payroll, it is used for data analysis and manipulation as well. Excel files have two main file extensions that it uses namely, the .xls and the .xlsx. However, there are other file extensions as well that are utilized by the software. 2007 Excel files are considered among the most stable of all excel files and utilize the .xlsx file extension.
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Reading John Updike's Complete Stories
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This series is a re-reading of John Updike's short stories in the wake of the publication of "The Collected Early Stories" and "The Collected Later Stories," the twin-volume set by the Library of America (2013), edited by Christopher Carduff. Updike wrote some 230 stories in five and a half decades. The commentaries include the Maple and Bech stories, most of which are excluded from the Library of America edition in anticipation of a subsequent volume collecting those. Contact the editor for questions, debates or corrections. A hyperlinked list of the compete stories appears below.
[Written in Oxford in 1955, "Dentistry and Doubt" was published in the Oct. 29, 1955 issue of The New Yorker, collected in The Same Door, The Early Stories, and the Library of America's Collected Early Stories.]
You can take this series of stories, of which this is the first, two ways: as almost essay-like theological explorations of one's place in the universe, meditations on the meaning of life and the harassing proximity of death; or as tedious, repetitive, contrived and self-absorbed examinations of a self looking for spiritual clarity and finding at best fantastic metaphors. The stories have an allegorical feel but since their subject is always the narrator, the breadth of the allegory is always limited. The style is elevated, giving an illusion of depth that the substance of the story does not always vindicate.
In "Dentistry and Doubt," Burton is a divinity student at Oxford. He must visit a dentist. He presumed that his clerical collar would invite assumptions. It's perhaps too much of an assumption as the dentist proves less than enthralled by his patient. Indifference, impatience with Yanks, is more like it. The distance between Burton and the dentist imbues the dentist with a touch of divinity, again a device Updike will use to good effect in future stories, such as "Farrell's Caddie." Burton is exploring his personal cosmology, just then illumined by Richard Hooker, the Anglican theologian.
Dentist and patient banter lightly. The dentist appears to be unaware of Burton's home state, Pennsylvania, which Burton describes as an "in-between sort of state." I liked the reaction of Jim Higgins, the book editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who in his summary of the story noted: " In-between what? New York and Ohio? As a Pittsburgh native born in 1958, I never felt that way about Pennsylvania, an important state in American political history. I'll take this odd response as a reflection of Updike the small-town lad, making his way at one of the world's great universities."
The theological musings are not particularly engrossing, unless you're into that sort of spiritual Rubik's cubing. Between attempts not to feel the procedure's pain Burton reflects about his pride, his doubt, the limits of his comprehension: "There were things Burton could comprehend. And then there were things he could not, such as God's aeons-long wait as life struggled up from the atom and the algae. With what emotion did he watch all those preposterous, earnest beasts labor up out of the swamp and aimlessly perish on the long and crooked road to Man? And the stars, so far off, the comedy of waste spaces…" It's simplistic, and the anthropomorphism, the rendering of "Man" as the only cause of creation is off-putting, though that's an essential part of Updike's philosophy.
Burton likes the view from the dentist's chair. He likes the birds in the backyard. By the time he's getting the silver, he's making ample discoveries about the world's mechanics. The dentist had asked for a Hooker quote earlier. Burton remembers one as he's leaving, a heavy-handed conclusion to the sermon gilded in the artifice of fiction: "I grant we are apt, prone, and ready, to forsake God; but is God as ready to forsake us? Our minds are changeable; is His so likewise?"
Endless stories can be constructed around the theologically unanswerable.The question is whether the stories are worth the effort. They might bore god.
John Updike: The Complete Stories (Click on Links for Summaries and Analyses)
Year Written
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Ace In the Hole 1954 New Yorker, April 9, 1955 The Same Door (1959)
Friends From Philadelphia 1954 New Yorker, Oct. 30, 1954 The Same Door (1959)
A Game of Botticelli 1954 The Liberal Context, Fall 1963 Collected Early Stories (2013)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth 1955 New Yorker, Apr. 30, 1954 The Same Door (1959)
Dentistry and Doubt 1955 New Yorker, Oct. 29, 1955 The Same Door (1959)
Snowing in Greenwich Village (The Maples) 1955 New Yorker, Jan. 21, 1956 The Same Door (1959)
The Kid's Whistling 1955 New Yorker, Dec. 3, 1955 The Same Door (1959)
Toward Evening 1955 New Yorker, Feb. 11, 1956 The Same Door (1959)
Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow 1956 New Yorker, April 7, 1956 The Same Door (1959)
Wife-wooing (The Maples) 1960 New Yorker, March 12, 1960 Pigeon Feathers (1962)
Giving Blood (The Maples) 1963 New Yorker, April 6, 1963 The Music School (1966)
Twin Beds in Rome (The Maples) 1963 New Yorker, February 6, 1964 The Music School (1966)
The Bulgarian Poetess (Bech) 1964 New Yorker, March 13, 1965 Bech: A Book (1970)
Bech in Rumania 1966 New Yorker, Oct. 8, 1966 Bech: A Book (1970)
Bech Takes Pot Luck 1968 New Yorker, Oct. 7, 1968 Bech: A Book (1970)
Rich in Russia (Bech) 1969 New Yorker, Jan. 31, 1970 Bech: A Book (1970)
Bech Swings? 1969 New Yorker, Jan. 31, 1970 Bech: A Book (1970)
Bech Panics 1970 No magazine publication Bech: A Book (1970)
Bech Enters Heaven 1970 No magazine publication Bech: A Book (1970)
The Gun Shop 1972 New Yorker, Feb. 25, 1972 Problems (1979)
Believers 1972 Harper's, July 1972 Problems (1979)
How to Love America and Leave It at the Same Time 1972 New Yorker, Aug. 19, 1972 Problems (1979)
Nevada 1972 Playboy, January 1974 Problems (1979)
Sons 1973 New Yorker, April 21, 1973 Problems (1979)
Daughter, Last Glimpse Of 1973 New Yorker, November 5, 1973 Problems (1979)
Ethiopia 1973 New Yorker, Jan. 14, 1974 Problems (1979)
Transaction 1973 Oui, March 1974 Problems (1979)
Augustine's Concubine 1974 The Atlantic, April 1975 Problems (1979)
Except for most of the Maples stories and the Henry Bech stories, the summaries and analyses are based on the texts presented in the two-volume Library of America edition of the complete stories (2013).
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